{"product_id":"9781434448040","title":"The Chronic Argonauts: A Precursor to The Time Machine","description":"In 1888, while a student, H.G. Wells published \"The Chronic Argonauts,\" a 3-part story serialized in \u003ci\u003eThe Science Schools Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e He would later return to the themes and recreate the story as the classic novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e. (After \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e's publication, Wells tried to suppress \"The Chronic Argonauts,\" going so far as buying all copies he could find and destroying them.) Today, the story is a rarity in its original publication, but it is hardly a classic work in the same vein as its successor novel. As a literary curiosity, it commands some interest, but do not go into it expecting anything on the scale of Wells's later, greater novels.","brand":"Wildside Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170498822384,"sku":"9781434448040","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781434448040_p0.jpg?v=1763754208","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781434448040","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}